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I wonder how many people have "put their balls on the line" and failed? Comments like this seem to prove Taleb's survivorship bias. You never hear stories from the 10,000 people (losers for every winner) who have gambled and lost because nobody wants to hear about the losers. Therefore we're...

Unfortunately I went long at 4083 yesterday :(

If the markets decline any more we might as well give everything to the Suadis and all move to the middle east.

I've decided to close my Long position when the FTSE reaches zero.

I must admit I'm finding it hard to understand what's happening here. This is a huge huge sell off. Many people selling now must be taking big losses from their entry point in the markets over the last 10 years. Where else are they going to invest their money? Is the world coming to an end?

I'm now a master in hyperbole. Obviously I'm over the moon at earning 10,000% per week.

Why? What's the point?

Bullet through the heart does the trick. Clean and simple. If it goes wrong you can make a full recovery and have a great story to tell :)

Surely you need extreme volatility to achieve those kinds of returns?

Stories like this should be retold as part of folklore ;)

Not all good news for speculators. Perhaps T2W should open a forum on shorting: FT.com / UK - Merckle in talks with banks after losses over VW shares "Adolf Merckle, the owner of a large family group that employs more than 100,000, is in talks with a consortium of banks after losing a large...

Lesson 1: Technical anaylsis using hyperbole curves Lesson 2: The use of hyperbole in increasing profitability Lesson 3: Riding the credulousity curve home Lesson 4: Understaing susceptibility support and resistance Lesson 5: Maximizing duplicity

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There a tatto in Edinbrugh as well?

I once saw a tattoo in London.